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Created October 26, 2014 08:12
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Add 4GB swap and tweak swappiness and vfs cache pressure
# create a 4G swap file at /swapfile
sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
# Make the Swap File Permanent
sudo echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
# set swappiness to 10
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
sudo echo "vm.swappiness=10" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
# set vfs_cache_pressure to 50
sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
sudo echo "vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
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